When I am working on multiple projects, I like to get to a stopping point on one before I move to another one. I have all the plans in mind but I feel like I need to let an idea settle for awhile before I can proceed. Some times I just have some other projects that need to be addressed and out of the studio so I can make room for new ideas.
Last year I was on a roll to rid my stash of some fabrics that just didn't appeal to me anymore. I felt like when they were gone, I would appreciate the fabrics I have & like more. Toward that effort, I made a bunch of quilt tops for donation. What I hadn't anticipated was how hard it would be to finish them. When you don't enjoy a particular color palette, you just don't enjoy it.
With a week left in January and eager to move these quilt tops into the hands of someone else, I set myself in front of the longarm yesterday to quilt. I got 3 done and have 6 more to go. I can easily get them done by the end of the month. They had grown in my mind to much larger sized quilts than they are in reality. Funny how that happens!
My mantra on these (and most of the quilts I donate) is that these are for real folk and not for quilters. I'm not concerned about fancy quilting. I'm concerned about getting these done. So, I am meandering all over them. It relieves me of the burden of having to be super creative. I can only stretch that creativity in so many directions and right now fancy longarm quilting is not one of those directions.
Two pyramid tops I made and one Friendship Star top Barbara made are done! Onward to the rest!
Last year I was on a roll to rid my stash of some fabrics that just didn't appeal to me anymore. I felt like when they were gone, I would appreciate the fabrics I have & like more. Toward that effort, I made a bunch of quilt tops for donation. What I hadn't anticipated was how hard it would be to finish them. When you don't enjoy a particular color palette, you just don't enjoy it.
With a week left in January and eager to move these quilt tops into the hands of someone else, I set myself in front of the longarm yesterday to quilt. I got 3 done and have 6 more to go. I can easily get them done by the end of the month. They had grown in my mind to much larger sized quilts than they are in reality. Funny how that happens!
My mantra on these (and most of the quilts I donate) is that these are for real folk and not for quilters. I'm not concerned about fancy quilting. I'm concerned about getting these done. So, I am meandering all over them. It relieves me of the burden of having to be super creative. I can only stretch that creativity in so many directions and right now fancy longarm quilting is not one of those directions.
Two pyramid tops I made and one Friendship Star top Barbara made are done! Onward to the rest!
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I have the star blocks I made for the quilt along in August. I have time this weekend to put the together into a top. Are you ready for me to send it or do you want me to wait?
ReplyDeleteWEll...me too. I have a nine patch I can finish this weekend from some of the 17 pounds of fabric you sent me last summer. But, I can put it aside. I would have finished it last weekend except for the stomach bug.
DeleteI'm glad someone is making progress, I'm feeling behind though I'm probably not, or at least not too bad.
ReplyDeleteIt is true-who wants to work with colors that they don't love? You will feel better I am sure when the tops are finished and gone.
ReplyDeleteI like the same thing too-to be at a solid stopping point before moving on to the next project. I like to have problems and their solutions in hand on one project before I start another project. My preference though is for one thing at a time:)
One project at a time just doesn't seem to have enough problem solving involved. I like to work on a few. It's the reason my hair is turning a nice shade of white!
DeleteSeriously, I like one simmering while one is active. I'm probably close to overload currently which is why I decided to get the tops done and gone.